RICHARD
01-26-2005, 01:56 PM
I didn't want to hijack the camping advice thread.
Funny camping stories!!!
I have a ton of them.
One time we went camping by the beach when a van filled with teenagers pulls up to the next campsite-The lettering on the side of the van said something like PACIFIC UNIVERSITY- It was a traveling college for troubled kids (we found this out later.)
They backed up the trailer into the space and unloaded it. The trailer doubled as a place to keep the food and personal belongings of the students.;)
Later, one of the kids came over to bum a cigarette. He explained the school and what the 'University' was all about. Parents, with troubled kids, would sign them up to get them out of the house and out of trouble.
They made their way up and down the California coastline for something like two months, camping.
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The following day they had their class time early in the morning.
The kid came back to bum more cigarettes-He explained that they were unsupervised because the counselors had gone to the airport to pick up another student.
Soon, the lack of supervision was pretty apparent!
There are TONS of squirrels that inhabit the area and one "bright"
kid decided to tie a paper bag to a fishing rod and reel.
He'd cast the bag out and when a squirrel would jump into it he'd lift the bag up, the squirrel would panic, jump out and run away. Most of the kids had a turn at Squirrel Fishing.
I looked at my GF and told her that the squirrels would get them back for this.
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Around noon the band of fishermen/women went down to the water to hang out.
After a while I noticed a chirping, chattering gang of squirrels running up and down the ramp of the trailer.
Squirrel fights were breaking out among 30-40 squirrels in the area.....
After about 3 hours, the kids came back and they began to talk loudly amongst themselves.
It seems that the squirrels had found their unsecured breadstuffs and ended up eating about 45 dollars of bread, cake and cookies.
:eek: :D
I learned that day that revenge is sweet, Rye, Wheat and White. :D
Funny camping stories!!!
I have a ton of them.
One time we went camping by the beach when a van filled with teenagers pulls up to the next campsite-The lettering on the side of the van said something like PACIFIC UNIVERSITY- It was a traveling college for troubled kids (we found this out later.)
They backed up the trailer into the space and unloaded it. The trailer doubled as a place to keep the food and personal belongings of the students.;)
Later, one of the kids came over to bum a cigarette. He explained the school and what the 'University' was all about. Parents, with troubled kids, would sign them up to get them out of the house and out of trouble.
They made their way up and down the California coastline for something like two months, camping.
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The following day they had their class time early in the morning.
The kid came back to bum more cigarettes-He explained that they were unsupervised because the counselors had gone to the airport to pick up another student.
Soon, the lack of supervision was pretty apparent!
There are TONS of squirrels that inhabit the area and one "bright"
kid decided to tie a paper bag to a fishing rod and reel.
He'd cast the bag out and when a squirrel would jump into it he'd lift the bag up, the squirrel would panic, jump out and run away. Most of the kids had a turn at Squirrel Fishing.
I looked at my GF and told her that the squirrels would get them back for this.
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Around noon the band of fishermen/women went down to the water to hang out.
After a while I noticed a chirping, chattering gang of squirrels running up and down the ramp of the trailer.
Squirrel fights were breaking out among 30-40 squirrels in the area.....
After about 3 hours, the kids came back and they began to talk loudly amongst themselves.
It seems that the squirrels had found their unsecured breadstuffs and ended up eating about 45 dollars of bread, cake and cookies.
:eek: :D
I learned that day that revenge is sweet, Rye, Wheat and White. :D